Approval must for a watchman’s room in parking areas, rules HC
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The Telangana High Court made it clear that it is mandatory to get approval for constructing a room for watchmen and toilets in the parking area located in the stilt floor in residential complexes. 168 of April 7, 2012, allows a ‘watchman room and two toilets in the stilt floor with a maximum built-up area of 25 square metres’, that by itself does not automatically allow a builder, to go ahead with the construction without including the same in the building permission. The judge was dealing with a petition filed by residents of Annapurna Apartments of CTO Colony in Kothapet, complaining that the civic authorities were threatening to demolish the watchman’s room on the stilt floor. GHMC counsel argued that in respect of apartment complexes, buildings, or blocks of a residential nature, in sites up to 750 sq.m the parking requirement shall be deemed met if the entire stilt floor is left for parking, and submitted that a minimum of 30 per cent of the built-up area of the residential complex should be allotted for parking.
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